The World Community Grid is extending you the privilege to contribute to the research that will lead to the next generation of solar cells and later, energy storage devices. By harnessing the immense power of World Community Grid for the Clean Energy Project, researchers can calculate the electronic properties of tens of thousands of organic materials – many more than could ever be tested in a lab – and determine which candidates are most promising for developing affordable solar energy technology. They are attempting to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity.

Grid computing joins together many individual computers, creating a large system with massive computational power that far surpasses the power of a handful of supercomputers. Because the work is split into small pieces that can be processed simultaneously, research time is reduced from years to months. The technology is also more cost-effective, enabling better use of critical funds.

We've all heard that we should turn off our idle computers. Many of us are simply not able to do so either because of the criticality of staying connected or running a storage server. Here is your opportunity to put your computer to work in a meaningful way as long as it needs to stay on.

The Clean Energy Project is the site where you can download the program to run on your computer.